Garment-hanger.



G. V. NICHOLS.-

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Patented Nov. 15, 1910.

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UNITE STATES GEORGE V. NICHOLS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TOTILDEN-THURBER COMPANY, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OFRHODE ISLAND.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent. 5 Patented N 15', 19][0 Applicationfiled. December 27, 1906. Serial No. 349,724.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE V. NICHOLS, citizen of the United States, andresident of Providence, county of Providence, Rhode Island, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment hangers and is particularly intendedto provide a means of suspension for an extensible garment hanger whichshall be adapted to suspend the garment hanger from an overhead supportwhether that support be a wall hook or a supporting rod and com rises aconstruction and arrangement 0 suspending device which is automaticallyfolded closely against the garment hanger when the garment hanger iscollapsed for carriage in a case or otherwise.

In the drawings-Figure 1 is a plan view showing the suspending means inthe position assumed by it when the garment hanger is folded orcollapsed. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same with the parts in theposition for sustaining a coat or other garment.

In the accompanying drawings I have shown my invention applied to thecollapsing wire frame garment hanger of the type illustrated in UnitedStates Patent to Webster No. 730,992 dated June 16, 1903. As thesegarment hangers are sold in sets arranged in compact cases for travelersuse it is desirable that when in the collapsed position all parts shouldlie as fiat and occupy as little space as possible. WVith the suspensionshown in the WVebster patent the device can be used only on wall hooksand not on the ordinary garment suspension rods for supporting suchhangers.

According to my present invention the suspension device comprises twochain sections at a the outer ends of which are secured to thetransversely extending portion 5 of the extensible wire sections 6similar to the arrangement shown in the lVebster patent. The inner endsor links of the chains however are connected with a peculiarly formedhook 0 whose shank is bent to form a longitudinal narrow loop 0 whichreceives the two end links a of the chain sections which are preferablyin the form of rings. This loop 0 is preferably made too narrow topermit the passage of these links or rings a by each other so that onemust necessarily rest above the other as shown in Fig.

2. The length of the chains and of this loop 0 is so proportioned thatthe length of the whole in the extended position is just equal to thelength between the transverse portions 79 of the frame to which theouter ends of said chains are secured so that the chain by thecollapsing of the wire sections upon each other is stretched out untilthe link assumes the position shown in Fig. 1. By making the loopnarrower than the thickness of the rings or links a it is impossible forthese links to bind against each other in the loop or to pull on a deadcenter against each other since as a result of this construction theirposition must always be offset one above the other so that the merecollapsing of the garment hanger acts automatically to draw the chainand hook flat against the top of the garment hanger as indicated in Fig.1.

What I claim is 1. An extensible and contractible garment hangerembracing two sliding sections comprising transverse portions embracingone another, a suspension chain whose outer ends are secured to saidtransverse portions and whose inner ends are retained in a longitudinalloop or eye formed in the shank of the supporting hook, substantially asdescribed.

2. A garment hanger of the class described embracing two collapsiblesections each having transverse portions surrounding the other to formsliding engagement, at suspending hook whose shank portion is formedinto a longitudinal loop, two chain sections having their inner endsloosely secured in said loop and their outer ends se cured to thetransverse portions of the sliding frames, the parts belng soproportioned that the total length of the chains and the hook loop issubstantially equal to the distance between the transverse portions ofthe hanger sections when in contracted position, substantially asdescribed.

3. A garment hanger embracing in its construction the telescopingsections, a supporting device consisting of flexible supportsterminating at their inner ends in links or rings, a hook provided witha longitudinal eye in which said rings are loosely inserted, said eyebeing of narrower diameter than the combined thickness of said links,substantially as described.

4, In a garment hanger the combination of the telescoping sections andsupporting means therefor embracing oppositely dis- I lapsing of thedevice the chain and the hook posed suspension chains whose outer endsare extended to lie fiat upon and parallel are secured respectively tothe telescopic secwith the telescopic sections, substantially as tions,an elongated closed wire loop which described.

5 receives and retains the inner end links of In witness whereof l havehereunto set 15 each chain, said loop being extended longimy hand, this12th day of December 1906. tudinally in the same direction as the hookGEORGE V. NICHOLS. portion and being of less width internally In thepresence of than the thickness of the two chain links JOHN J. FEENERTY,

10 passed through it whereby upon the col- EDWIN E. WHIPPLE.

